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HOUSE BILL 2953
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State of Washington 56th Legislature 2000 Regular Session
By Representative Veloria
Read first time 01/25/2000. Referred to Committee on State Government.
AN ACT Relating to election procedures; and amending RCW 29.15.130 and 29.30.095.
BE IT ENACTED BY THE LEGISLATURE OF THE STATE OF WASHINGTON:
Sec. 1. RCW 29.15.130 and 1990 c 59 s 79 are each amended to read as follows:
(1) Not less than thirty days before the first day for filing declarations of candidacy under RCW 29.15.020 for legislative, judicial, county, city, town, or district office, where more than one position with the same name, district number, or title will be voted upon at the succeeding election, the filing officer shall designate the positions to be filled by number.
The positions so designated shall be dealt with as separate offices for all election purposes. With the exception of the office of justice of the supreme court, the position numbers shall be assigned, whenever possible, to reflect the position numbers that were used to designate the same positions at the last full-term election for those offices.
(2) The election of members of a board of freeholders or other type of citizen review commission, members of a city governing body under a city charter, or members of a county legislative authority under a county charter may be conducted without conforming to subsection (1) of this section.
Sec. 2. RCW 29.30.095 and 1990 c 59 s 96 are each amended to read as follows:
The name of a candidate for a partisan office for which a primary was conducted shall not be printed on the ballot for that office at the subsequent general election unless the candidate receives a number of votes equal to at least one-half of one percent of the total number cast for all candidates for that position sought and a plurality of the votes cast for the candidates of his or her party for that office at the preceding primary.
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